If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you’re fooling yourself. That’s like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him...
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
~George Steiner
The Golem Knows
“Will Eisner [one of America’s greatest comic book cartoonists, who was
also Jewish] wrote that the Golem was perceived in the 1930s as a
mythological character, an early superhero,” says Blich. “The comic book
creators were obviously secular, but the story of the Golem was
imprinted in ‘Jewish genes’ searching for salvation. There are numerous
conceptions of Superman as a mythological hero, a modern embodiment of
ancient mythology, a hero with supernatural powers who can save
civilization from the forces of nature or the evils of human society.”
Supermensches: Comic books' secret Jewish history ...
There will never be another Stan Lee. For decades he provided both young and old with adventure, escape, comfort, confidence, inspiration, strength, friendship and joy. He exuded love and kindness and will leave an indelible mark on so, so, so many lives. Excelsior!!
Stanley Martin Lieber was born in New York City on December 28, 1922, the first son of his Romanian immigrant parents.
In his autobiography Excelsior!, Stan Lee wrote he read to escape from the dreariness and sadness of his home life and school during the Great Depression.
He also scribbled little illustrated stories to amuse himself.
Stan Lee, Marvel Comics writer, co-creator of the Avengers, X-Men and Spider-Man, dies aged 95
“Excelsior” has long been Lee’s catchphrase. In
the mid-1960s, not long after Atlas Comics rebranded as Marvel, Lee
wrote a monthly column for the comics publisher in which he’d sign off
with “Excelsior!”—a Latin word meaning “ever upward.” He told io9 in
2007 that he wanted a unique word to himself that his rivals at the time
wouldn’t be tempted to copy:
I used to have a lot of expressions that I would end my comic book columns with: Hang Loose, Face Front, ‘Nuff Said, and I found that the competition was always imitating them and using them. So, I said I’m going to get one expression that they’re not going to know what it means, and they won’t know how to spell it. And that’s where excelsior came from, and they never did take up on it, thank goodness.
Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee: Stan Lee, George Mair ...
The Sydney-based shock jock missed his regular 2GB and 4BC breakfast show on Monday and again on Tuesday.
2GB radio host Alan Jones has been rushed to hospital and will be off the air "indefinitely", the Daily Telegraph reports.
The 77-year-old radio icon missed his morning breakfast slot on Sydney's 2GB on both Monday and Tuesday after seeking treatment for "severe back pain", the publication reported.
The 77-year-old radio icon missed his morning breakfast slot on Sydney's 2GB on both Monday and Tuesday after seeking treatment for "severe back pain", the publication reported.
Fellow 2GB host Ben Fordham said the station "needed Jones back on air".
"Alan has more backbone than anyone I know so I am sure he is going to make a full recovery," Fordham said
